Maggie Barbieri

"Final Exam"
St. Thomas, the small college north of New York City where Professor Alison Bergeron teaches, has had its share of scandals involving both its students and its staff, not to mention Alison herself, so when a resident director goes missing the administration wants to keep a lid on it. 

 With only five weeks left in the semester and no time to interview replacements, Alison is tapped for the job. An alumna of the college, Alison knows all about living in the dorms. 

 Even a short stay is like doing hard time, and she will do anything to avoid reliving her college days any more than she has to. 

 Her only way out: Track down the reluctant RD and drag him back kicking and screaming if need be. Luckily, she doesn't have to look further than the drugs he had hidden in his bathroom to get her boyfriend, Detective Bobby Crawford, on the case.

 “Murder 101”

 English Professor Alison Bergeron is not having a very good day. 

 Her car has been stolen so she has to walk to the train station to get to her office at St. Thomas, a college in the Bronx, New York.  When she arrived she finds two homicide detectives waiting for her. 

The good news is that they found her car; the bad news is that in the trunk was the body of one of the students in her Shakespeare seminar.

Trying to get her name off of the handsome Detective Crawford’s suspect list turns out to be just one of her problems. 


Alison has to bail her ex out of jail; deal with the victim’s distraught parents, classmates of hers when she was a student at St. Thomas; and grade those Shakespeare exams, which seem to be getting a lot of attention for a boring old stack of reports.

 And in the meantime, who would want to kill college student Kathy Miceli?
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